Sentences with phrase «teacher has the same effect»

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We could have quoted St Irenaeus — who is indeed a saint, martyr and great teacher of the Church — at much greater length to exactly the same effect, but the succinctness of Tertullain's style serves well to express the thought no matter that the man unfortunately left the communion of the Church at the end of his life.

The delays in the process, the Daily News reported a few weeks ago, has the greatest effect on the same high - quality new recruits whose jobs Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he wanted to save during this year's fight over how to determine teacher layoffs.

And what effect does an extremely mobile teacher corps — only one in four taught the same grade at the same school for both years — have on student outcomes?

It reveals that 83 per cent of teachers feel that Year 6 Sats have a detrimental effect on pupils» mental health — and that 54 per cent feel the same about tests taken by Year 2 pupils.

Thus, computer systems that have been carefully crafted and selected by trained and experienced educationists for the purpose of stimulating learning in children will, in the hands of those children — at their own pace and in their own time — achieve the same effect as a teacher for many learning situations.

Further, the CB plan does not redistribute retirement compensation away from teachers who leave after, say, five, ten, or 15 years to teachers who work under the same plan their entire careers, an effect that in many systems would likely help more people reach retirement security.

For example, if black students are more likely to attend and black teachers are more likely to work in under - resourced schools, a naive analysis might conflate the effect of having a same - race teacher with that of school resources.

To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).

I would like to have predictive effects that condition on averages over many classrooms, with and without the same teacher, and consider a limit as the number of such classrooms tends to infinity.

At the same time, increased public and elite concern about the effect of underperforming schools on national equity and economic competitiveness has created new political incentives for policymakers to embrace innovative approaches to teacher quality and school reform generally.

I would like to have predictive effects that condition on averages over many classrooms, with and without the same teacher.

This includes evidence from four separate studies that have directly tested whether VAMs measure correlation or causation... All four of these studies reach the same conclusion: VAMs that control for students» lagged test scores primarily capture teachers» causal effects rather than correlations due to other factors not captured in the model.

An admittedly indirect way to evaluate the effects of these unobserved differences in teacher quality is to consider how the performance gain associated with having a teacher of the same race varies across different types of schools.

To isolate the effects of having a teacher of the same race, we examine whether individual students are more or less likely to face exclusionary disciplinary consequences in years when they are matched to a same - race teacher compared to years when they are assigned to a teacher of a different race.

Research has demonstrated positive effects for students of color having teachers of the same racial background and has also demonstrated that teachers of color reduce stereotypes and increase cross-cultural understanding in all students.

Including these observed teacher traits in the analysis had no appreciable effect on the performance gains associated with assignment to a teacher of the same race.

In addition to the positive results, the academics discuss what it is about lessons in nature that may make the difference, highlighting previous research findings on: the benefits of physical activity (in this study the class walked 200 metres to get to the grassy area); exposure to nature being good for stress and attention; having a break from the classroom and change of scenery (a similar effect to going for recess); and the fact the teachers would also too feel less stressed and benefit from the same change of scenery and a «bit of a breather».

Specifically, by including teacher fixed effects in their analyses, researchers have been able to compare a teacher with multiple years of experience to that same teacher when he or she had fewer years of experience.

Research has demonstrated the positive effects on students of color from having teachers of the same racial background.

At the same time, we are in the midst of a «teaching crisis» that has a critical effect on how prepared our students are to be successful in the sciences and how prepared our teachers are to get them there: Half of all teachers leave the profession within the first five years, and this rate is highest for math and science positions and in high poverty schools [iii].

The LSG teachers acknowledged the possible harmful effects of having students learn a procedure without meaning, but at the same time were charged with having students produce correct answers to a narrow selection of systems of equations to be included on tests that would be used by administrators to judge the quality of their teaching.

For students who performed at the lowest levels, the effect of having a teacher of the same race was even larger.26

At the same time, however, research is demonstrating the powerful effect that teachers can have on student learning and illuminating the ways in which great teaching is more important than ever before.

Maybe tests that teachers already were giving had the same effect on learning and made the benchmark tests redundant.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

Interestingly, the same poll shows that while 57 of teachers think that unions «have a positive effect on schools,» just 30 percent of the general public thinks so.)

Increased exposure to Hispanic math and science teachers in middle and high school tends to increase the likelihood that Hispanic students take STEM courses during their first year in college, though pairing black students and black math / science teachers does not have the same positive effect.

It's very controversial and I've argued that one of the flaws of it is that even though VAM shows the average growth of a teacher's student, that's not the same thing as showing a teacher's effect, because teachers teach very different groups of students.

Prior rigorous evaluations of the program have generally found positive effects of TFA teachers on students» learning in math and science and no significant differences in reading or language arts, compared with non-TFA teachers» effects in the same schools.

Feeling unsafe in school, experiencing at least 10 teacher absences, and exposure to school crime have the same equivalent effect, dropping to the 49th percentile.

After all, the efforts of centrist Democrats to implement objective teacher evaluations and revamp tenure have the same effect as efforts by conservative reformers and Republican governors to abolish collective bargaining and end the privilege of unions to force teachers to pay dues into their coffers.

Amy Asai, a 1st - grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School in the Clovis Unified School District, has observed the same calming effect in her classroom.

Amy Asai, a 1st - grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School in the Clovis Unified School District, has observed the same calming effect in her classroom.